Originally Published: March 13th, 2002 The landscape of tabletop role-playing games underwent a seismic shift with the introduction of the D20 System and its Open Game License (OGL) in the early 2000s. This revolutionary framework allowed third-party publishers to create and distribute content compatible with the wildly popular Dungeons & Drago
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